Power is violence, its promise, its deed. Power cares nothing for reason, nothing for justice, nothing for compassion. It is, in fact, the singular abnegation of these things - once the cloak of deceits is stripped away, this one truth is revealed.

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it.

The notion of evil for its own sake strikes me as boring -- all these Dark Lords intent on creating wastelands packed with enslaved victims... for what?

The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.

He was not a modest man. Contemplating suicide, he summoned a dragon.' Gothos' Folly

What makes a Malazan soldier so dangerous? They’re allowed to think.

I have to feel what I'm writing, right down to the core.